Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2016

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1. Blackstar
   David Bowie
2. A Moon Shaped Pool
   Radiohead
3. My Woman
   Angel Olsen
4. Junk
   M83
5. Freetown Sound
   Blood Orange
6. Human Performance
   Parquet Courts
7. Teens of Denial
   Car Seat Headrest
8. You Want It Darker
   Leonard Cohen
9. Front Row Seat to Earth
   Weyes Blood
10. Eternally Even
    Jim James
11. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
12. Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
    Underworld
13. Tween
    Wye Oak
14. The Bride
    Bat for Lashes
15. Blind Spot
    Lush
16. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
17. Running out of Love
    The Radio Dept.
18. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
19. Is the Is Are
    DIIV
20. Wildflower
    The Avalanches
21. Amen & Goodbye
    Yeasayer
22. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
23. Palana
    Charlie Hilton
24. Boy King
    Wild Beasts
25. How to Be a Human Being
    Glass Animals
26. Puberty 2
    Mitski
27. Luck or Magic
    Britta Phillips
28. Mangy Love
    Cass McCombs
29. SVIIB
    School Of Seven Bells
30. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
31. Otero War
    Caveman
32. Next Thing
    Frankie Cosmos
33. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
34. Human Ceremony
    Sunflower Bean
35. Blond
    Frank Ocean
36. The Midnight Sun
    C Duncan
37. Life of Pause
    Wild Nothing
38. If You See Me, Say Yes
    Flock of Dimes
39. Total Depravity
    The Veils
40. Chaosmosis
    Primal Scream
41. Adore Life
    Savages
42. Coloring Book
    Chance The Rapper
43. Take It, It's Yours
    Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan
44. Singing Saw
    Kevin Morby
45. Building a Beginning
    Jamie Lidell
46. Minor Victories
    Minor Victories
47. Fading Lines
    Amber Arcades
48. No Burden
    Lucy Dacus
49. Melt
    Boxed In
50. Do Hollywood
    The Lemon Twigs
51. Nonagon Infinity
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
52. Infinite Summer
    NZCA Lines
53. The Colour in Anything
    James Blake
54. The Hope Six Demolition Project
    PJ Harvey
55. Pretty Years
    Cymbals Eat Guitars
56. A Hand Through The Cellar Door
    Luke Temple
57. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
58. Midnight Room
    Springtime Carnivore
59. Every Now & Then
    Jagwar Ma
60. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
61. Moth
    Chairlift
62. Mass Gothic
    Mass Gothic
63. FLOTUS
    Lambchop
64. Soft Hair
    Soft Hair
65. Foreverland
    The Divine Comedy
66. Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
    Xiu Xiu
67. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
68. Love Yes
    TEEN
69. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
70. Jet Plane and Oxbow
    Shearwater
71. Heads Up
    Warpaint
72. Strange Diary
    Psychic Twin
73. Dead Blue
    Still Corners
74. Bloom Forever
    Thomas Cohen
75. Schmilco
    Wilco
76. A Corpse Wired For Sound
    Merchandise
77. Here
    Teenage Fanclub
78. City Sun Eater in the River of Light
    Woods
79. Summer 08
    Metronomy
80. IV
    Black Mountain
81. Marlon Williams
    Marlon Williams
82. Love Streams
    Tim Hecker
83. Preoccupations
    Preoccupations
84. Commontime
    Field Music
85. Painting of a Panic Attack
    Frightened Rabbit
86. Brilliant Sanity
    Teleman
87. EUSA
    Yann Tiersen
88. Post Pop Depression
    Iggy Pop
89. Plaza
    Quilt
90. Patience
    The Invisible
91. Innocence Reaches
    of Montreal
92. Night Thoughts
    Suede
93. Luxury Alone
    Weird Dreams
94. Fall Forever
    Fear of Men
95. One Day All Of This Won't Matter Any More
    Slow Club
96. Will
    Julianna Barwick
97. Eyes on the Lines
    Steve Gunn
98. Love You to Death
    Tegan and Sara
99. Waltzed in from the Rumbling
    Plants and Animals
100. Treasure House
     Cat’s Eyes